Passages North invites you to enter your poetry for consideration for the 2006 Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize


$1000 First Prize
Two honorable mentions

With guest judge John Poch of Texas Tech University, and author of Poems and In Defense of the Fall

Entry fee: $10 for 1 to 3 poems

Reading period for the Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize will be from October 15 until January 22, 2007

All entrants will receive contest issue of Passages North.

Include a SASE for announcement of winners.

Make checks payable to Northern Michigan University.

Passages North is pleased to announce the winners and finalists of our 2005 Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize. 

Winner:

Esther Lee, “Good Girl Montage”

Finalists:

Jennifer Foerster, “Creation: Moon”

Kristen Henderson, “The Smoker”

John Pursley III, “Hammerhead on the Atlantic”

Derek Sheffield, “Living on James Wright”

Matthew Thorburn, “And Nadine was Like”

The work of the winners and finalists will be published in our Spring 2006 issue, and a copy of that issue will be sent to all those who submitted.  Our poetry and nonfiction contests are held once every two years.  Look for them again in the fall of 2006.  Thanks to all who entered.